Now available individually in new digest sized paperback editions, the first four books in Le Guin's magical series chronicle four young cats with wings who leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live.
Jane, the youngest of the catwings, goes looking for adventure in the big city and captured

Longing for adventure, Jane, the youngest of the catwings, flies to the city on her own. When she flies through the window of a man who feeds here, she is suddenly captured, and finds herself making appearances as Miss Mystery, the fabulous winged cat Realizing that being independent is much more dangerous than she thought, Jane plots her escape and hopes to reunite with her mother.